Canelo on Critics Calling For Fights at 175: They Want To See Me Lose

I'm sure Canelo will eventually go back up to the 175lb division later in his career. When Thomas Hearns went up to 175lbs for the first time he went against Dennis Andries who was clearly the worst champ at the time. I was a huge Hearns fan and had no problem with it. It was amazing that Hearns won a title in his 5th weight division. It was called Hearns big light heavyweight experiment. He defended his 154lb world title vs Mark Medal then jumped all the way to 175lbs. He almost emediatly left the 175lb division until later in his career.He could have fought Prince Charles Williams, Virgil Hill, or Michael Moorer for a title. Later on in his career he fought and defeated two time light heavyweight champ Virgil Hill, who had 20 title defenses over two reigns.You could say Hearns cherry picked as well because Charles Williams or Moorer would have been more risky style wise. That being said, i think Benevedis would be Canelo's toughest fight at 168lbs and Bivel and Beterbiev toughest at 175lbs. At 168lbs Hearns 4th division he fought 1 superfight vs Leonard, and two other fights, one vs Kinchen for the vacant newly created WBO title and one vs former middleweight contender Michael Olajide jr. My point is weight division jumpers have been cherry picking for along time. Its one of the benefits, at the same time they get massive kudo's for jumping division's which this generation seems to just expect regardless of the quality.

 

I’ve already seen Canelo lose and lose badly he was completely outboxed and outclassed by Mayweather.

 

Serious? If he can win a belt in a division, he's not too small. You going to justify a title grab against a shot fighter now? Title grabs with weight jumping is a part of the problem with boxing. It promotes false accomplishments. It's no better than Pac's 154 fight w/ Margarito.

 

yea fans want to see you lose... you went up to 175 and fought the weakest 175 champion on a short camp that everyone new was shot but you pretending like it was the kovalev of pre ward fights..and you were a god for taking the fight.. Ps bivol outboxes him and beterbiev beheads him. so of course he gonna avoidthem

 

Hey, Canelo moved up to 175 voluntarily. I don't think anyone had a gun to his head. He picked the weakest, most damaged fighter holding a LHW belt, beat him fair and square ( after only 4 weeks form a very difficult fight AND Kovalev admitted it was just a payday) and called is part of his "legacy" then immediately dropped back to 168, forgoing any challenges at that weight. If he wants to have a legacy, and enriching that legacy with belts at multiple weights, then it's not out of line for boxing fans to demand he fight the best at thise weights or stop pretending those belts mean anything.

At 168, if he fights Saunders then Plant and defeats them both then that's a fair shout for a legacy.
But stop all the weight class jumping unless you fight then genuine best at that weight.

I have spoken.

 

What's wrong with a five week camp?

 

Nothing....unless you are 36yrs old, just had a brutal war with a much younger fighter, been brutally ko'd several times within the past couple years and you're an alcoholic.

 

The red headed shemale has no shame

 

Oh ffs

The notion that some of you whiny lil bitches consider yourselves true boxing fans is laughable.

 

Are you calling Canelo and Oscar idiots? Lol

 

he did

 

And then get held to weight clauses by Clenelo

 

I wasn't going to remind him of that little factoid, but yeah....."drain your opponent " is a mantra of the Canelo camp.